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Fans and people with Madden skilz think timeouts are only good for stopping the clock for end of game drives. Thing is, coaches "waste" them all the time for personnel and play calling reasons. If you take the default view that the Pats weren't stopping Seattle, then calling TOs to save clock for a Hail Mary type late drive makes sense. But if you think Belichick was thinking about making a stand, then using or not using TOs to maximize his chance to make sure he had the right defensive play call given what the offensive personnel was showing, it isn't so dumb to do what he did.

Think in terms of wanting to stuff them 3 more times. Bellichick said after the game that he knew they were going to run a pass play from their personnel package. If he thought that they could stuff that, then he could use his last two TOs to react/adjust to what the Seahawks were showing on the field. Using your TOs to preserve your shot at getting the ball back ups your odds of getting scored on.

Guy is a coaching robot. I'm sure he's thought about this. If opposing team is inside my X with under Y to play, and I have TOs, do I let them score and get the ball back, or try to stop them 4 times? My guess is you can't play for both, so you pick one and optimize game management for that. He clearly choose to put all his chips on stopping them. I don't think it's all that clear cut which has better chance, as they are both low probability events.

You forget that the Seahawks had 1 TO left with just under a minute to play. If they run and get stuffed, they have to call TO and then are forced to pass the last two downs. That was why Pete Carrol called the pass play. If Belichick calls TO, he gives the Seahawks a free TO and an option to stuff the run twice.

Not taking a TO only is a bad move if you assume the odds of the Seahawks scoring are greater than the odds of you getting the ball back and getting enough yards to get into FG range. This only works if you let them score. The Giants showed that teams aren't always so dumb as to grant you a quick score.

Like everyone else watching, I thought, there's no way the Seahawks don't score, so in the moment agreed with my neighbor screaming for a TO. After the fact, it is clear the Pats weren't getting the ball with more than 10 seconds no matter what, and odds of a goalie stand may have been better than a hail marry, and Belicheck made the right call.

The rules say what pressure the ball needs to be delivered to the refs two hours before the game should be. It also says a pump must be furnished, presumably so refs can rein flare balls if they wanted. That puts the onus on the refs for not checking and correcting it before kickoff. Furthermore, the rules don't say what the air temp of the balls should be upon delivery, so if the Pats delivered 12psi balls @140 degrees, an then they deflated due to physics when they cooled down, the rule book doesn't say anything about whether that's legal or not.

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I wanted to take his waiting on Harbaugh as a positive for It's Happening.gif, but it could always be that Harbaugh has said, you're my DC no matter where I land. If it's Michigan or if it's an NFL destination where he has the control he wants.i still think Harbaugh comes home, but I don't think Durkin putting off TAMU is as conclusive a sign as one might hope.

I thought this was a possible reason for the video equipment yesterday, but based on the rumored details of the agent meeting today reported by the Edge, it makes more sense that the video equipment involved Harbaugh + Agent one one side, and Hackett + regents on the other.

It wasn't done using Skype because you don't have a meeting where you're trying to do everything you can to assure JH that Michigan is committed to doing whatever it takes to return to prominence, including shell out big money for assistants, and then ask the dude to jump on Skype. Cheapskates use skype, ballers send a video crew.

On the other hand, it could also just be Michigan making sure to keep the full court press on and deciding to not risk letting a FaceTime connection screw things up and thinking HD is worth the money and effort.

I took the video equipment comments on Rivals to mean that maybe Harbaugh would actually be addressing players. It seems like such a very Harbaugh thing to do, and it makes sense why you would need to send equipment + tech people. I'm sure Hackett would find a way to get to SF for a real face to face if it came down to it. I'm sure FaceTime or Skype would also work. But a video conference call with 100 players logging in remotely with video feeds in Aa and SF as sources sounds exactly like what would require people and equipment on a plane.

Ugh. I think Harbaugh does have real interest in the UM coaching job, but I don't think he's any sort of lock. Tire fire or not, if Oakland throws the GM/coaching combo at Harbauh, I think he'd be very interested. The GM/coach combo worries me much more than the money.

I don't know what Harbaugh is thinking or wants, but from what I've read about him, IF he were very interested in returning to UM, he doesn't seem like he would want to let it look like some 34 year old rich kid gave him the boot back to college, where his shtick would work better. He seems like he'd want to let NFL teams offer up draft picks to get him, simply to prove a point; that he's still very much a hot commodity. That would allow Harbaugh a chance to save face a bit when he then took the UM job. It would make it a choice he made out of love for his alma mater, and leave the NFL on his own terms, not York's. Not saying that's what he wants, but IF his mind were made up and terms basically reached with UM, this is exactly how it would play out in the media before then end of the season.

Gruden, who has one few Super Bowl rings, a worse winning percentage, and has been in the broadcast booth for 6 years since getting canned by the team he took to the Super Bowl after a six year stretch with a losing record, gets GRUDEN!! type posts in every CC tread since forever, but Shanahan elicits universal DO NOT WANT posts?